Sacramento County (CA) Law Enforcement

Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office

SSO/SSD is comprised by over 1500 Sworn employees, which includes Field Services, Correctional Services, and various Contract/Regional Services.

Sheriff’s Patrol units

SSO’s patrol units are divided into North, East and Central(South) Divisions. North Division is comprised of 4 districts, north of the Sacramento River. East Division comprises two patrol districts, one being the Rancho Cordova Police Department, where SSO deputies patrol the confines of Rancho Cordova, in RCPD marked cars and uniforms, but are still deputy sheriffs and wear a deputy sheriff badge. The “Chief of Police” for RCPD is an SSO Captain, who is also in charge of the East Patrol Divison as a whole.. Central Division is comprised of two patrol districts, Central and South. Various Speciality and support sections/units are included in Field Services.

Sheriff patrol callsigns are comprised of a number-number-letter-number combination. The first number denotes the district(1-8) the 2nd number denotes the beat within the district, the letter denotes the shift(discussed below), and the final number(1-2) identifies the number of officers in the car. I believe if there is a field training trainee in the car, the number may still be 1. Often the final number is not voiced on the radio.

District 1(Northeast)-Areas near Sac. International Airport, McClellan, North Highlands, Antelope, Rio Linda Examples: 11A1 District 1 Beat 1 morning/Day shift 1 man unit 16F2 Beat 6 graveyard shift 2 man car

District 2(North)- Old Foothill Farms, Carmichael 22C1 District 2 beat 2 Swing shift 1 man car 24D2- District 2 Beat 4 Swing Shift 2 man unit

District 3(Northeast)-Carmichael, Orangevale

District 4(North Central)- Arden Arcade

East Division(RCPD/SSO East Area patrol)

District 5(RCPD)- City Limits of Rancho Cordova)

District 7(East)- North part of Vineyard, Mather, Rosemont Gold River, unincorporated north eastern part of South Sacramento County.

Central Divison(Central/South bureau)

District 6(Central)- Florin, Vineyard

District 8(South) Most of South Sacramento County, Herald, Wilton, River Delta, Rancho Murrieta

X-ray-extra/specialized patrol units, usually unmarked 5X2- RCPD Crime Suppression Unit

Sam- Sergeant units, for both patrol And specialitys. Usually at least 2-3 for North, 2 for East, and 1 for Central.

21S-Sergeant for District 2 current on-duty patrol team

Lincoln- Lieutenant and Watch Commander, usually 1 per patrol division

L53- Watch Commander for East/RCPD Patrol Division

NXXX/EXXX/SXXX- Patrol Division admin/possiby station detectives, such as division commander(N100)//unknown or referred to as a phonetic or as “north, South, east” S100- South Patrol Captain N102- North Patrol XO(Lt)

Henry- Fulton El Camino Park Police(Separate agency, but dispatched/CAD Managed by SSO) Use patrol callsigns such as 1H35

SSO Shifts

Patrol Shifts are divided into 3 watches, Day, Swing, and Graveyard, 10 hours in length. Each watch is further divided to make 6 patrol teams to allow for days off. Watches are overlapped by about 2 hours to allow for efficient/safe shift changeovers

Adam/Boy- Day shift units (0600-1600) Charles/David- Swing Shift(1400-0000) Frank/Ed- Graveyard shift (2200-0800)

Specialty units: Most speciality units, such as Gangs, POP, etc, are named somewhat plainly over radio, such as GANGXX, POPXX, with the numbers matching the patrol district they are matching, with a somewhat random 2nd number. For example, a Gang Unit working in district 6 might be called as GANG62.

CSOXX- non-sworn Community Service Officer

Gang-Obvious POP- Problem Oriented Policing/Homeless Outreach Units

WilliamXXX-Believed warrant detectives

ID/IDAXX- CSI, CSI units are fully sworn deputies, unlike Sacramento Police.

K9X-duh

CITX-Mental crisis units, County Health/social worker paired with SSO deputy.

River-Marine enforcement units Silver- Universal CA callsign for parole agents

STAR-Sheriff’s Tactical Aerial Response or Resource(SSO Helicopter Unit)

5Mary/MotorX-Motor unit, exclusively for RCPD

EOD-Obvious

CIV/CivilXXX- Civil Bureau Deputies(Oversee Civil court process)

SACCAT/ACE- Sacramento County Auto Theft Task Force/Auto Crimes Enforcement- Auto theft units, usually with single number, such as SACCAT9 or ACE2.

Youth- SSO Youth Services Unit

SSO has a standing contract with the Elk Grove Unified School District to provide SROs for their schools. SCHXX/SchoolXX

SSO will occasionally provide full-time/part time SROs for other districts, such as San Juan Unified

SJ41 San Juan 41. San Juan “Safe Schools” assignment in District 4.

SSO also provides overtime/off-duty patrol to various neighborhoods, restaurants, etc. Usually these units will use a abbreviation/name of the job, followed by a 1-2 digit number that matches the patrol division the location is in. Wil4 or Wilhaggin4- Willhaggin neighborhood patrol unit in District 4

Centralized Investigation Division(CID)

CID has a variety of sections, such as Homicide, Crimes against Persons, Crimes against Property, Robbery, Sexual and Elder Abuse, Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement(SAFE)

All CID units, as far as I’m aware, go by Union, followed by a 3 digit number beginning at either 100 or 200. Numbers are divided by assignment, for example, 200s are reserved for Homicide.